Just When I Thought We Could Be Friends...
Spot sent me this precarious bike lane photo to add to my collection [from SonnyRadio].
Can't quite tell where this canal-defying, bridge-nicking lane runs, but the water looks too clean for it to be China, where commuting has a decidedly more proletarian patina — and where bikes increasingly contend with cars without benefit of lanes.
But I'm unlikely to get confirmation one way or another from any Chinese cyclists. One of my more conservative friends reports from Shanghai:
I often review the CNN political "ticker" during all of this hot political news. However I have had trouble getting into it while in China... I keep getting timed out. No problems with other links within CNN or other sites. I noticed that in the site address the political ticker had the word "blog" contained within it. So, I thought, "I wonder if this is the Chinese government blocking access to sites containing the word 'blog' or 'political' or both."
So he tried to get to this blog...
No luck. I timed out just like with CNN. Must be a huge left wing (i.e., communist)
conspiracy to...
Hard to believe commies would turn against one of their own comrades! Must be some of my free market commenters who are keeping Across the Great Divide on this side of the firewall.
Thought you might enjoy this piece in today's Salon. Can't remember if HTML works in comments, so you might get a batch o'code here.
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Posted by: barbara | July 24, 2008 at 10:16 AM
Well -- that was useless. How 'bout this?
http://www.salon.com/mwt/good_life/2008/07/24/sports_utility_bicycle/
Posted by: barbara | July 24, 2008 at 10:17 AM
That bike lane might well be along the C&O canal in Georgetown. At least, I've ridden something very like it.
Posted by: janinsanfran | July 26, 2008 at 12:30 PM
The foreign plates on the car make it unlikely, though. Glad to see you comment. I was wondering the other day about whether you were still a reader.
Posted by: Charlie Quimby | July 26, 2008 at 12:43 PM